Subj : Re: Thunderbird
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Tue Jul 26 2016 23:11:00

In a message on Tuesday 07-24-16 Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Paul,

This day was completely turned upside/down. I woke up at 09:20 instead
of the usual 07:45. I don't know why!

I was to the yearly grill party for the radio amateurs of our club, but
I didn't take any beverages or such, since I drove there and home, and
was home at 21:30, and to bed the customary time.

 HG> Now I could follow your recipe to import a text, into the e-mail ..

PQ> I need to make you aware of one thing about that method.  That
PQ> function is actually expecting to see a previously saved formatted
PQ> email.

Yes I know, because I've seen it asking for that.

PQ> The way it presents standard text files is a wonderful side-effect.

In my case, the text I wanted to import, was created at an OS/2 machine,
and carried over to the Win10 machine on a diskette.

PQ> In another test, there was an imbedded control character that caused
PQ> the remaining text in the file to _not_ be displayed.

Yes, I have seen that there are all sorts control characters in Fido
messages, when I've looked at the raw text in my file manager.

 HG> But oh how cumbersome, compared to doing it either with the shorthand
 HG> commands I have in my spine, or with the aid of the editors menu bar,

PQ> On the one hand, reading in the whole text file requires trimming off
PQ> excess text above & below the required to-be-quoted section.

I didn't have to do that, but I saw an extra line feed inserted into the
text, but didn't bother to remove it.

PQ> On the other, the text file is loaded into a separate window and the
PQ> required to-be-quoted section is selected & pasted.

Yes, that's the way it works.

22ø here in the morning, and 23.5ø in the afternoon, and a slight breeze
from the sea. So far we haven't had a tropical night. That is a night
when the temperature doesn't drop below 20ø.

When I get up in the morning, the sun has been up already several hours.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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